Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. After studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, Peck began appearing in stage productions, acting in over 50 plays and three Broadway productions. He first gained critical success in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), a John M. Stahl–directed drama which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama The Valley of Decision (1944), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), and family film The Yearling (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including The Paradine Case (1947) and The Great Sinner (1948). Peck reached global recognition in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing back-to-back in the book-to-film adaptation of Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and biblical drama David and Bathsheba (1951). He starred alongside Ava Gardner in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953), which earned Peck a Golden Globe award. Other notable films in which he appeared include Moby Dick (1956, and its 1998 mini-series), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962, and its 1991 remake), The Omen (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). Throughout his career, he often portrayed protagonists with "fiber" within a moral setting. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) centered on topics of antisemitism, while Peck's character in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder during World War II. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), an adaptation of the modern classic of the same name which revolved around racial inequality, for which he received universal acclaim. In 1983, he starred opposite Christopher Plummer in The Scarlet and The Black as Hugh O'Flaherty, a Catholic priest who saved thousands of escaped Allied POWs and Jewish people in Rome during the Second World War. Peck was also active in politics, challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 and was regarded as a political opponent by President Richard Nixon. President Lyndon B. Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. Peck died in his sleep from bronchopneumonia at the age of 87.
Movie | Becoming Al Pacino | Self (archive footage) | 2022-02-06 |
Movie | To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View | Archive Footage | 2022-10-11 |
Movie | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-08-27 |
Movie | Trumbo | Joe Bradley (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-10-27 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Series | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) | 2013-01-05 |
Movie | Fallout | Self (archive footage) | 2013-07-26 |
Movie | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
Movie | Gravity | Himself (archive footage) | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Legenden: Audrey Hepburn | Self (archive footage) | 2005-08-01 |
Movie | The Curse of 'The Omen' | Self (archive footage) | 2005-10-26 |
Movie | Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand | Himself | 2004-03-30 |
Movie | From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff | Self / Narrator (voice) | 2002-08-25 |
Movie | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
Movie | Restoring Roman Holiday | Joe Bradley (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
Movie | The Making of 'Cape Fear' | Self | 2001-01-01 |
Movie | The Making of 'Cape Fear' | Self | 2001-09-18 |
Movie | Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement' | Self (archive footage) | 2001-10-21 |
Movie | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-23 |
Movie | A Conversation with Gregory Peck | Self | 1999-10-14 |
Movie | Fearful Symmetry | Self | 1998-01-01 |
Series | Moby Dick | Father Mapple | 1998-03-15 |
Movie | Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996-04-06 |
Movie | Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman | Self | 1996-11-25 |
Movie | Charlton Heston: For All Seasons | Self | 1995-03-20 |
Movie | A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | Self | 1995-05-21 |
Movie | Sinatra: 80 Years My Way | Self - Presenter | 1995-12-14 |
Movie | Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey | John Ballantyne (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1995-08-24 |
Movie | Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class | Self | 1995-11-16 |
Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
Movie | The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann | Narrator | 1994-10-06 |
Movie | Audrey Hepburn: In Her Own Words | Himself - Introduction | 1993-01-01 |
Movie | The Portrait | Gardner Church | 1993-02-13 |
Movie | Audrey Hepburn: Remembered | Self | 1993-08-11 |
Movie | The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue | Mr. Ziegfeld (voice) | 1993-11-26 |
Movie | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self (archive footage) | 1991-03-10 |
Movie | Other People's Money | Andrew Jorgenson | 1991-10-18 |
Movie | Cape Fear | Lee Heller | 1991-11-13 |
Series | Star Life | Self (archive footage) | 1990-08-04 |
Movie | Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 1990-02-04 |
Movie | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Self | 1990-08-27 |
Movie | Anthony Quinn: An Original | Self (archive footage) | 1990-09-10 |
Movie | Old Gringo | Ambrose Bierce | 1989-09-13 |
Movie | Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren | Narrator | 1989-12-01 |
Movie | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Self | 1988-03-08 |
Movie | Amazing Grace and Chuck | President | 1987-05-22 |
Movie | Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | Self | 1987-05-18 |
Movie | Directed by William Wyler | Self | 1986-05-01 |
Movie | The Witching Hour | (archive footage) | 1985-11-04 |
Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Robert Thorn (Archive Footage) | 1984-10-26 |
Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty | 1983-02-02 |
Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
Series | Champs-Elysées | Self | 1982-01-16 |
Series | The Blue and the Gray | Abraham Lincoln | 1982-11-14 |
Movie | The Sea Wolves | Col. Lewis Pugh | 1980-07-03 |
Movie | The Boys from Brazil | Dr. Josef Mengele | 1978-10-05 |
Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | 1978-12-28 |
Movie | MacArthur | Douglas MacArthur | 1977-07-15 |
Movie | The Omen | Robert Thorn | 1976-06-25 |
Series | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self | 1975-01-12 |
Movie | Billy Two Hats | Arch Deans | 1974-03-07 |
Series | Spécial cinéma | Self | 1974-09-25 |
Series | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Self | 1973-04-02 |
Movie | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) | 1972-01-10 |
Series | The Pearl Bailey Show | Self | 1971-01-23 |
Movie | Shoot Out | Clay Lomax | 1971-07-02 |
Series | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self | 1971-05-09 |
Movie | I Walk the Line | Sheriff Henry Tawes | 1970-11-18 |
Movie | The Chairman | John Hathaway | 1969-06-25 |
Movie | Mackenna's Gold | Marshal MacKenna | 1969-03-18 |
Movie | Marooned | Charles Keith | 1969-12-11 |
Movie | The Movie Orgy | Captain Ahab (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
Movie | The Stalking Moon | Sam Varner | 1968-12-25 |
Movie | Africa | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1967-09-10 |
Movie | John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | Narrator | 1966-04-10 |
Movie | Arabesque | Prof. David Pollock | 1966-05-04 |
Movie | Salute to Stan Laurel | Self | 1965-11-23 |
Movie | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
Movie | The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 |
Movie | Mirage | David Stillwell | 1965-10-29 |
Movie | Behold a Pale Horse | Manuel Artiguez | 1964-08-14 |
Movie | Captain Newman, M.D. | Capt. Josiah "Joe" Newman, MD | 1963-12-25 |
Movie | Cape Fear | Sam Bowden | 1962-04-12 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1962-10-01 |
Movie | To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | 1962-12-20 |
Movie | How the West Was Won | Cleve Van Valen | 1962-11-02 |
Movie | The Guns of Navarone | Capt. Keith Mallory | 1961-04-27 |
Series | The Dick Powell Show | Self - Guest Host | 1961-09-26 |
Movie | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 |
Movie | Beloved Infidel | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1959-11-17 |
Movie | Pork Chop Hill | Lt. Joe Clemons | 1959-05-29 |
Movie | On the Beach | Dwight Towers | 1959-12-16 |
Movie | Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958-01-01 |
Movie | The Hidden World | Narrator | 1958-01-01 |
Movie | The Big Country | James McKay | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | The Bravados | Jim Douglass | 1958-06-25 |
Movie | Designing Woman | Mike Hagen | 1957-05-16 |
Movie | Stars of Cabaret | Self (archive footage) | 1956-01-01 |
Series | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1956-04-01 |
Movie | Moby Dick | Captain Ahab | 1956-06-27 |
Movie | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Tom Rath | 1956-04-12 |
Movie | The Million Pound Note | Henry Adams | 1954-01-07 |
Movie | Boom on Paris | Self | 1954-02-19 |
Movie | The Purple Plain | Bill Forrester | 1954-09-14 |
Movie | Night People | Col. Steve Van Dyke | 1954-03-11 |
Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |
Movie | Roman Holiday | Joe Bradley | 1953-08-26 |
Movie | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Harry Street | 1952-10-08 |
Movie | The World in His Arms | Captain Jonathan Clark | 1952-10-09 |
Movie | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N | 1951-04-10 |
Movie | David and Bathsheba | King David | 1951-08-10 |
Movie | Only the Valiant | Capt. Richard Lance | 1951-04-13 |
Movie | Pictura | Narrator: Carpaccio episode (voice) | 1951-06-01 |
Movie | The Gunfighter | Jimmy Ringo | 1950-06-23 |
Movie | The Great Sinner | Fedja | 1949-06-29 |
Movie | Twelve O'Clock High | Brigadier General Frank Savage | 1949-12-21 |
Movie | The Art Director | Self - Philip Schuyler Green (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1949-11-12 |
Series | Bambi Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1948-01-01 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self (archive footage) | 1948-06-20 |
Movie | Yellow Sky | James "Stretch" Dawson | 1948-12-24 |
Movie | Gentleman's Agreement | Philip Schuyler Green | 1947-11-11 |
Movie | The Macomber Affair | Robert Wilson | 1947-04-20 |
Movie | The Paradine Case | Anthony Keane | 1947-12-31 |
Movie | The Yearling | Ezra "Penny" Baxter | 1946-12-18 |
Movie | Duel in the Sun | Lewton "Lewt" MacCanles | 1946-12-31 |
Movie | The Valley of Decision | Paul Scott | 1945-05-03 |
Movie | Spellbound | John Ballantine | 1945-11-08 |
Movie | Days of Glory | Vladimir | 1944-06-16 |
Movie | The Keys of the Kingdom | Fr. Francis Chisholm | 1944-12-15 |
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